24 November 1789: Bond by Thomas Chadwick [signs] of Bredbury, county Chester, hatter, Nathan Royle [signs: Ryle] of Romiley, county Chester, yeoman and Joseph Coppock [signs] of Stockport, county Chester, hatter, to Samuel Boyer gentleman clerk of His Majesty’s court of record for the manor and forest of Macclesfield, in £50: for Chadwick to appear at the next court to prosecute John Thorniley of Stockport yeoman, for wrongfully taking and unjustly detaining one gray gelding (worth £50). Witness: Lawrence Walker [signs]